Chapter VII Running a Big City Selecting talents without sticking to one pattern

Although Lin Yi didn't study economics or management in his previous life, he hadn't eaten pork or seen a pig run. So as long as it took more than half an hour, the big city in his heart had a rough outline plan. But he has a special identity, and he definitely can't go ahead, who will he find to manage this big city?

That's right, it's him, a familiar name came into Lin Yi's mind - the prince and the prince Wang Dun.

This person was born in today's most prominent and wealthy family - Langya Wang, Langya Wang's family was founded in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and was one of the most famous families in ancient China. From the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the present, there have been many celebrities for hundreds of years, countless, "Wang Xiang" who lies on the ice and seeks carp, "Wang Rong", one of the seven sages of the bamboo forest, "Wang Yan" of Shangshu Ling today, and "Wang Dao" who later laid the foundation of the Eastern Jin Dynasty together with "Wang Dun".

Wang Xiang lost his mother at an early age, and his stepmother Zhu was not loving, and often told Wang Xiang's rights and wrongs in front of his father, so he lost his father's love. One winter, the stepmother Zhu was sick and wanted to eat carp, but because of the cold river water, it could not be caught, so Wang Xiang lay naked on the ice and prayed, suddenly the ice cracked, and two carp jumped out of the crack. Filial piety touches the sky, this is the allusion of the twenty-four filial piety "lying on the ice and seeking carp". At the end of the Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, so Wang Xiang supported his mother and his younger brother Wang Lan to Lujiang to avoid the chaos, and lived in seclusion for more than 20 years, not being recruited by the state and county. When his mother died, Wang Xiang fell ill due to excessive grief and was able to stand up with a cane. Wang Xiangnian was more than half a hundred years old before he became an official, his life was honest and noble, his virtue was noble, he was ranked among the three princes, and he died without illness.

Compared with his half-brother Wang Xiang, Wang Lan was second only to him in reputation at that time, and his conduct was also very good. Wang Lan had a good relationship with his brother, and his biological mother, Zhu, hated Wang Xiang, but not only slandered Wang Xiang in front of her husband, but also often abused him, but Wang Lan always stood by Wang Xiang's side and advised his biological mother not to abuse and target Wang Xiang. Later, it was learned that the Zhu family intended to poison Wang Xiang, and regardless of the danger of taking poison by mistake, he robbed the poisonous wine and tried the dishes first. Wang Languan to Doctor Guanglu, the title of Qiuzi, and finally died of a long life. If the descendants are prosperous, most of Wang Xiang's descendants are unknown and hidden in the mountains and forests, while Wang Lan's descendants are many virtuous, especially prosperous in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Wang Dao and Wang Dun are his grandsons, and Wang Xizhi is his great-grandson.

Wang Rong and Wang Yan were also cousins of their grandfather, and their grandfather, Wang Xiong, was the Taishou of Youzhou in Cao Wei. Wang Xiong and Wang Lan are also cousins of their grandfather, their grandfather is named Wang Ren, who served as the assassin of Qingzhou in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Therefore, from the perspective of genealogy, Wang Rong, Wang Yan, Wang Dao, Wang Dun and other famous people in the world are all cousins who have not been out of the five lakes.

From the perspective of family affection, Wang Dun is the daughter of Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty, the princess of Xiangcheng, that is, Sima Shu's uncle, and there is a layer of relationship, according to the normal historical trajectory, Sima Shu's future crown princess Wang Huifeng is Wang Yan's youngest daughter, so no matter how you calculate it, Wang Dun is a relative. This person is not only talented but also bold, in the history of this person later the power of the world, is the first powerful minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and finally ruined his reputation, opened the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties of the powerful ministers to rebel and seize the throne.

The Langya Wang family was also the most famous beautiful male family in the Wei and Jin dynasties. Shishuo Xinyu records that someone went to visit Taiwei Wang Yan, and also met Wang Rong, Wang Dun and Wang Dao here, and in another room, they saw Wang Xu and Wang Cheng again. After coming out, he said to the people: "Today's Taiwei Mansion and his party, all I can see are beautiful jade. This is where the idiom "dazzling" comes from.

The Wei and Jin dynasties were the most elaborate period in Chinese history, and everything was more important than birth, not only than fathers and mothers, but also grandfathers than ancestors. Although Wang Dun was born in such a family, he is not a simple second generation, although this person has no achievements in literature, and he does not like to slip around and shoot horses, and he is self-sustaining, "What is my identity Wang Dun, and what is your identity Jia Mi", he looks down on Jia Mi and his ilk at all, or he does not disdain to join Jia Mi's "Twenty-Four Friends" circle, but he is also a world-famous celebrity today.

It is said that when Wang Dun first married the princess of Xiangcheng, he went to the toilet and saw dried dates in the lacquer box, which was originally used to plug the nose and prevent odor, but Wang Dun mistakenly thought that the princess's mansion would also eat fruits, so he ate a fine light. After coming out, the maid held a golden basin with water, and used a glass bowl to hold the bath beans for washing hands, but Wang Dun poured the bath beans into the water and drank them as a meal. When all the maids saw this, they all covered their mouths and laughed.

Shi Chong's toilet was beautifully built, and various perfumes and balms were prepared for guests to wash their hands and wipe their faces. There are often more than a dozen beautiful women waiting for the guests to go to the toilet, and after the guests have gone to the toilet, these maidservants have to take off the original clothes on the guests and put on new clothes for the guests. All the clothes that have been on the toilet, no matter how gorgeous they are, are no longer asked to be worn by guests, and many guests are shy and embarrassed to go to the toilet. And Wang Dun went to the toilet at Shi Chong's house, and a group of beauties stripped themselves naked and changed their clothes, but Wang Dun looked very arrogant as if he had nothing to do, and the maids said privately, "This guest can be a thief by temperament!"

Every time Shi Chong invites guests to drink, he often asks beauties to pour wine and persuade guests. If the guests don't drink, he asks the guards to kill the beauty. Once, Director Wang and his younger brother Wang Dun went to Shi Chong's house for a banquet. Wang Gui couldn't drink in the future, but he was afraid that Shi Chong would kill people, so he had to reluctantly drink when the beautiful woman was drinking. Wang Dun didn't buy it, he could have drunk a few glasses of wine, but he insisted on not drinking it. As a result, Shi Chong killed three beauties in a row, but he still didn't drink them. Wang Dao blamed Wang Dun, and Wang Dun said: "What does it have to do with you when he kills people in his own family!"

It can be seen that Wang Dun's personality is informal and uninhibited, but he does not have the indecisive character of the famous man in the world, it can be said that he is ruthless and decisive. If you choose three good students from among the subordinates of the East Palace according to today's secular standards, it must be Jiang Tong, Du Xi and others, but now it is not the three good students, and the three good students are not necessarily suitable for the city order of the big city.

As Lin Yi guessed, Wang Dun applauded his hands very much after hearing Lin Yi's idea, and without waiting for Lin Yi to finish speaking, he recommended himself and was willing to make this city order. However, Lin Yi did not put the treasure on Wang Dun alone, after all, a talent like Wang Dun would not always work in the East Palace, and he would definitely go out of Beijing to be a feudal official in the future. Now is the early stage of the establishment, and he needs a talent like Wang Dun with a family background, but he believes that with his guidance behind the scenes, he only needs Wang Dun to come forward at the front desk, and with his ability, he will definitely be able to do a good job in all aspects of the relationship. When everything is on the right track, find a familiar person to take over, and Wang Dun can get out.

The big city that Lin Yi is planning now is no different from the previous East Palace, but the specific structure is obviously different. He now wants to unify the meat, poultry, eggs, vegetables, grain and oil and other agricultural and sideline foods needed by the officials and people of Luoyang, daily necessities such as cloth and iron tools, and consumption service places such as restaurants and teahouses in one big market. This is actually what later generations called a supermarket.

"There is no shortage of professionals from all walks of life in this big city, you can move directly from the East Palace City, and the guys and pawns can be directly selected from the palace maids and eunuchs. However, they must go through unified training before they can take up their posts, and they must wear uniforms in the market and establish a good image. The East Palace suddenly vacated so many palace maids and eunuchs, and the big market couldn't absorb so many people for a while, if they chose to stay, the East Palace would still keep them, and the monthly salary remained the same as before, but temporarily let them grow vegetables and raise livestock in the back garden. After all, the West Market is only Lin Yi's initial plan, and in the end, he will establish a chain of stores all over the capital, and even extend to production, transportation and other lines. Wang Dun carefully recorded Lin Yi's words and words.

"So no matter what, our quality should be undeceiving, and the price should be the lowest in the city! Only in this way can we win respect and trust, and eventually occupy more markets." Lin Yi emphasized this key point to Wang Dun again.

"If this is the case, what His Highness has done is really a blessing to the people of the capital, but I am afraid that not only will we have no profit, but the capital will also be lost soon!" Wang Dun wondered.

"Even if there is no profit now, it does not mean that there will be no in the future! Besides, if you try it, you will know," Lin Yi was very confident in his heart.

"I don't know what His Highness will name this big city!" Wang Dun asked with a key question in mind.

"The sage clouds, 'Absolute saints abandon wisdom, the people benefit a hundredfold, absolute benevolence and righteousness, the people restore filial piety, and absolute ingenuity abandons profit, and there are no thieves.' Fame and fortune are the source of evil, and playing clever to seek fame and fortune is the result of people's bad nature, and fame and fortune and cleverness are the two major weapons. If you abandon wisdom and ingenuity, the people will be rewarded with a hundredfold benefit, if you abandon benevolence and righteousness, the people will be restored to their filial nature, and if you abandon cunning and profit, there will be no thieves.

No profit is profit, no profit is advantageous, if we want to take a long-term view of the market, we can't take profit as the first goal, then call it abandoning profit parity hypermarket. Lin Yi had already thought of the name of the city.

Although Lin Yi explained for a long time, Wang Dun did not feel enlightened, after all, this is one of the big killers in the marketing industry in the 20th century, "Quickly occupy the market with low price and quality, win the reputation of consumers, and win the market consumer group." Wang Dun just felt that this seemed to mean something, but he didn't know why Lu Dao was like this. But fortunately, His Highness has already arranged everything, and he just needs to carry it out.

What shocked Wang Dun even more was that he felt that His Royal Highness had changed too much today, and he had just met a smile on his face on the way out of the palace before he came, such as Mu Chunfeng Jiang Tong and Du Xi, and it was really as Jiang and Du said, His Royal Highness had just listened to the "five admonitions" of Jiang Daren. He thought that the big market run by the prince was just for fun, and in the end it would cause the old ministers and the people to point fingers behind their backs, so he didn't really want to spread this troubled water, but the prince found him and described all his grand plans, he naturally understood what the prince meant, so he took the initiative to make this city order first. But as soon as he really saw the prince's idea, he felt an unprecedented shock, if the result he did was really as the prince wanted, then he would draw a heavy stroke from the dragon's skills in the future, and the marquis would not be a problem.

Just do what you say, the gentleman has no jokes, Lin Yi really did everything according to the requirements of Jiang Tong's "Five Admonitions", and strived to be a holy monarch, and the big city also assigned Wang Dun to be in full swing in preparation.

As soon as Lin Yi's edict was issued, the East Palace was already boiling for a whole afternoon, and countless palace maids and eunuchs and miscellaneous servants were excitedly running to tell each other, which was really laughter, singing and dancing. I was happy that I finally escaped from the magnificent cage of the East Palace, I thought that if I left the East Palace, I would have no source of livelihood, and I was even more happy that the prince still hired them and gave them a way to live. It's just that a small number of people are very reluctant, although in the past, they were scolded and whipped, but as Empress Jia's spies in the East Palace, they could get a lot of extra rewards every month, so they naturally didn't look down on the money Lin Yi gave him.

The reason why Lin Yi resigned so many palace maids and eunuchs was that he was actually selfish, he didn't like to be served so intimately, there was no privacy, and the palace staff was bloated and the expenses were too great, so why not do it! The most important thing is that he knew that he was now living under the noses of Empress Jia and his party all day long, and there were a large number of palace maids and eunuchs in the palace who had been bought by Empress Jia and Jia Mi. At this time, he just took advantage of this opportunity to find a legitimate reason for those palace maids and eunuchs who usually had two hearts to be kicked out of the East Palace. not only left a reputation for being diligent in government and loving the people, but also made those old ministers in the East Palace cry and shout wisely, and also pulled out eye diseases.